After collecting a full set of trading cards, the user has the option to "craft" the cards, permanently removing them from their Steam inventory in exchange for a game-themed emoticon, profile background, profile badge, and an amount of Steam "XP". Supported games each have their own set of trading cards, which typically incorporate game art in their designs. Like their physical counterparts, Steam Trading Cards are a collectible commodity which are routinely traded, bought, and sold. Steam Trading Cards entered open beta in May 2013, with six games initially participating in the system. The Steam Community Market was introduced in late 2012, which enables Steam users to buy and sell virtual goods with store credit. During the 2011 Steam Winter Sale, users could complete objectives in select games to receive virtual "coal" which could then be redeemed for prizes, a progenitor to the system that would later be utilized for Steam Trading Cards.
Steam Trading was introduced in 2011, which allows users to trade virtual game items between each other. In the years prior to the introduction of Steam Trading Cards, Valve implemented multiple features into Steam to facilitate the trading, buying, and selling of virtual goods. In a series of blog posts, Valve condemned this behavior, calling such games "fake games", and claimed that trading card farming was responsible for damaging the Steam storefront. The developer revenue gained through trading card sales has attracted undesirable attention from "asset flippers" developers who release low-quality games onto Steam solely to profit from their trading cards. Since their introduction in 2013, Steam Trading Card sets have been integrated into over 7,000 games.
Cards can be "crafted" to acquire Steam-centric awards such as emoticons or profile backgrounds, traded to other Steam users, or sold through the Steam Community Market for store credit. Steam Trading Cards are a non-physical analogue of conventional trading cards, which are periodically granted to Steam users for playing games, fulfilling tasks, or by random chance. Steam Trading Cards are a digital commodity issued by Valve for use on its digital distribution platform, Steam. A Half-Life 2 Steam Trading Card, depicting the G-Man.
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